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Elaine WIlson

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Emeritus Fellow of Homerton College University of Cambridge www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/wil…

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The turn against Turnitin in UK HE is gaining momentum, with Cambridge U the latest to cancel its contract over its proposal to use student essays to train AI. I imagine more unis will now follow. TII will surely be going into crisis management now. Good piece on it here wonkhe.com/blogs/a-supp...
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A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays
Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are many things in this world I do not know nearly well enough to offer what would be a presumptuous opinion. On #Ireland, the #OrangeOrder, and #GarvaghyRoad, I did come across this comment on Insta that I'd like to offer instead. Peace is fragile. This is how we hold on.
kev_buchanan writes on Instagram in response to a news item:

I understand tradition. I understand freedom. And I understand the principle of having the right to walk peacefully on a public road.

But surely rights also come with responsibility, judgement and an understanding of history.

For almost 30 years the Orange Order has not walked down Drumcree Garvaghy Road. That restriction didn't appear from nowhere. It followed years of confrontation, violence and division surrounding a period in which people lost their lives and, amid the horror of 1998, three young brothers, Richard, Mark and Jason Quinn, were murdered in a loyalist petrol-bomb attack.

Yet here we are in 2026, after an administrative failure opened the original decision to legal challenge, with men sitting through the night in court and now apparently prepared to wait however long it takes to exercise their "right" to walk down one particular road.

But why?

Tradition matters. Freedom matters. The rule of law matters. But so do remorse, empathy, responsibility and knowing when a tradition has become more damaging than meaningful.

Nobody needs to surrender their culture or identity. But after almost three decades, if exercising a right means insisting on walking through a community that overwhelmingly does not want you there, reopening wounds that Northern Ireland has spent years trying to heal, perhaps the bigger question isn't whether you can.

It's why you still feel you must.

At some point preserving tradition has to matter less than preserving peace. Otherwise we aren't honouring history - we're refusing to learn from it.
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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Parading in NI: Does the Secretary of State require the Chief Constable of the PSNI to intervene in the Drumcree parade dispute? - FactCheckNI
During the dispute over an Orange Order parade at Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant faced calls to intervene to prevent the procession from taking place. Speaking to ...
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 27/09/2026
"The streets of Portadown will eventually clear, the police Land Rovers will go back to base and the mutual assistance officers will head home across the Irish Sea," writes Allison Morris. "But the political fallout is going to be huge and is already being felt..."
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Fallout from Sunday’s Drumcree standoff set to be politically significant
Executive at risk as republicans join together in protest and DUP demand action
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Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎧 The Drumcree crisis and what's likely to happen next, with @ciarandunbarrach.bsky.social, Allison Morris, Andrew Madden and Claire Dickson.
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Drumcree: Nationalist and unionist camps completely divided over Garvaghy march
There is a stalemate in Portadown and deep division in Stormont.On the Orange side, the issue is the rights of a small number of people to march their traditional route – backed by a legal ruling. On ...
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Northern Ireland's loyalist equivalent of Tommy Robinson, Jamie Bryson, is at Drumcree ramping up tensions. He's demanding that the PSNI protect the Portadown District Orange Lodge march from Drumcree Church along the Garvaghy Road. He wants trouble. 📷 Presseye
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Modi, Orban, Erdogan, Trump, Farage. They all learn from each other on how to deal with journalists, and how create their own propaganda channels. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75066/...
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Trump is trying to control the news, and Farage is desperate to follow him
Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom—when so much of our information is controlled by a handful of billionaires—is very much on
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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Call for Papers is now open, through the end of October. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. To submit, see the Call for Papers tab at: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...
The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Call for Papers is now open, through the end of October.

Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns.

The Summit is interested in compelling research that examines who deploys malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns, why they deploy them, what power structures they create or utilize to maximize their potential impact, how to measure actors’ perceived salience of incentives, how to measure the impact of supportive power infrastructures, and what policies or practice might intervene on incentives or power infrastructures.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Last chance to sign a petition to end billionaire media ownership - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not going to register to read that. If his model is working what's causing the rise in exclusions? 🤷‍♀️
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There's a lot of "PISA shows Gove was right" about at the moment which totally ignores so many wider issues. Pupil disengagement, NEETS, employers telling us that young people lack soft skills, teacher retention, under funding etc etc. bsky.app/profile/sudd...
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MrsVB @mrsivb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In light of recent events, this could do with a few more signatures ...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform
Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
end the billionaire/corporate media petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... mediasovereignty.org/petition/
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Live stream of our run of 120km to build a hospital for street dogs. We are 90km in absolute bits but we can maybe make it… www.youtube.com/live/K44RPa-...
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Crossing the Finish Line for Tina's Hospital
YouTube video by Happy Doggo
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Elaine WIlson @egwilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Really good programme on BBC sounds Well worth listening to on this grey Sunday morning
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BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, 70 Up the final instalment of 7 Up, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy on the BBC & how polling informs political media strategy?
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy on the BBC and the final chapter of 7 Up.
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kick the billionaires out of our news media-> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory reform
Pass law to ban foreign & offshore ownership of UK media, enact a social-media levy to distribute media ownership across society & fund independent, local & cooperative-owned media. We believe democra...
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform UK has received a £36m donation from a British cryptocurrency billionaire called Ben Delo Last year Delo was given an unconditional pardon by President Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The BBC’s flagship serious news radio programme should definitely not, IMO, be relying on an independent expert to be the first contributor to report the *facts* about Ben Delo’s background to its audience. This is an inexplicable, strikingly timid lapse, and not excusable, I believe.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s vital IMO to link this seismic development in UK political donation with Scaramucci’s wise+salutary words to Justin Webb:”We set up a system where the money is falling to the politicians, the billionaires are getting what they want from the politicians, the legislative agenda has been skewed..”
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#BBCr4today extremely disappointing that as far as I heard it took until 7.39am until polling guru+Prof of politics John Curtice mentioned the conviction+ #Trump’s pardon of #Reform’s £36m donor Ben Delo. No mention in (edited) news report by BBC’s Ben Wright, by Justin Webb or by Jack Fenwick.
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Times today.
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Laura @laurajerramp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes and disparity across the regions even of England is enormous. The high results in London and south east England skew the results. Wales has very little in common socio economically with London. Ignoring the socioeconomic and making it all about devolved education policy is nonsensical.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So I've seen quite a bit on the latest PISA results and about how it's a 'natural experiment' on policy due to education being devolved. That got me thinking about the *side effects* of a 'natural experiment' and the impact on inclusion. If you're claiming 'success' you need to look in the round.
revealed a deteriorating situation in England, with alarming and rapidly rising rates of formal exclusion and suspension, and a contrasting picture of much lower rates in neighbouring Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (Daniels et al., Citation2019; Ferguson, Citation2021, Citation2020; McCluskey et al., Citation2019; Power & Taylor Citation2020; Duffy et al., Citation2021). At the time of writing, the rates of exclusion and suspension in England have risen steeply once again (DfE, Citation2023a,
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
These extracts are from a very interesting piece of research into exclusions which also points out that they are not really a feature of education elsewhere in Northern Europe. What price success in PISA? That would be my question. You can read the research here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
exclusion figures. Disturbingly, despite significant reductions in rates of exclusion in the devolved jurisdictions, and the large body of research emphasising the negative impacts of harsh discipline including exclusion (see, for example, the Timpson Review, Citation2019), over-representation of some minoritised and marginalised groups of young people in exclusion figures still persists across all four jurisdictions. Indeed, the welcome reduction in the use of exclusion in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has in some ways unmasked the intransigence of disproportionality as a feature of school exclusion.exclusion figures. Disturbingly, despite significant reductions in rates of exclusion in the devolved jurisdictions, and the large body of research emphasising the negative impacts of harsh discipline including exclusion (see, for example, the Timpson Review, Citation2019), over-representation of some minoritised and marginalised groups of young people in exclusion figures still persists across all four jurisdictions. Indeed, the welcome reduction in the use of exclusion in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has in some ways unmasked the intransigence of disproportionality as a feature of school exclusion.
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Marc With A C @wilch2710.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And heres another feel-good story
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'No billionaires were harmed in the making of this movie'. demand a free media: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'Wealth creators' are fleeing the UK. Ban propaganda masquerading as news: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
recent instagram reel re mediasovereignty.org/petition/ youtube.com/shorts/jhle7...
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On Reform UK polling, dark money, 'thinktanks' ... 4 Sept 2026
YouTube video by Media Sovereignty Act Campaign
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Omz2468 @omz2468.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hi @bbcnews.bsky.social Reform are a party of 8 MPs, less than the SNP. Therefore, they do not have a 'Shadow Home Secretary' The Shadow Home Secretary is Chris Philp. Maybe you need BBC verify to check your own reporting...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
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JAM RADIO NEWS @jamradiouk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice announces an independent review into the university’s treatment of Professor Jason Arday. The review will examine the support, interventions and protections available to him before his death, and what Cambridge “could have done better”.
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Sean Rands @seanrands.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Muddying the waters makes fish more sociable: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/se...
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September: Muddying the waters makes fish more sociable, study finds | News and features | University of Bristol
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Twitter is awash with white male "evolutionary biologists" (ahem) going through sociology thesis thinking they are qualified to evaluate them. I mean the level of entitlement is just off the charts.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is quite the piece. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Very interesting to note that we now have increasing numbers of qualified teachers working in our voluntary run early years setting who explicitly tell me they can no longer work within their value set in schools so are willing to take a pay cut to move.
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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Over 3,000 signatories! Almost twice as many as the Cofnas support campaign. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remove ridiculous Ofsted demands before you remove the bits of the job that people enjoy.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
mediasovereignty.org/tanked-reput...
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Tanked Reputation: Britain's Think Tanks and Their Funding - Media Sovereignty Act Campaign
One point in the Media Sovereignty Act draft identifies think tanks as a common source of media duplicity. Learn here what think tanks are and why requiring them to be more transparent could be a def...
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